Director’s Corner 16 July 2009 Barry Barish Students admitted to LC accelerator school Preparations continue toward our "Fourth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders" to be held from 7 to 18 September in Beijing, China. The school continues to draw a large applicant pool as we received a total of 244 applications from 41 countries, […]
Improvements in high-gradient ILC SCRF cavities
Director’s Corner 9 July 2009 Barry Barish Improvements in high-gradient ILC SCRF cavities Developing high-gradient superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) nine-cell cavities is one of the primary goals of our global R&D programme. Soon after we initiated the Global Design Effort (GDE) R&D and design programme for the International Linear Collider, we set the ambitious goal of […]
A picture is worth a thousand words
Director’s Corner 2 July 2009 Barry Barish “A picture is worth a thousand words” – (sometimes attributed to) Napoléon Bonaparte Today, in less than 1000 words, I announce the addition of a new member of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC), Jean-Pierre Delahaye of CERN. Jean-Pierre will allow us to form stronger ties with […]
A step at a time
Director’s Corner 18 June 2009 Barry Barish A step at a time Last week we held the first ever joint meeting of the GDE Executive Committee and the CLIC Extended Steering Committee. This meeting at CERN represented another step in bringing the CLIC and ILC efforts closer together. CERN’s Director General Rolf Heuer, the CERN […]
An official change of name
Director’s Corner 11 June 2009 Barry Barish An official change of name A strategy has been emerging over the past months to define a new baseline configuration for the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR). Beginning with the well-established Reference Design Report (RDR) configuration, we are selectively proposing changes that can significantly improve the cost to […]
The value of being reviewed
Director’s Corner 4 June 2009 Barry Barish The value of being reviewed Last week, one of our ILC project managers, Nick Walker, wrote a guest Director’s Corner about what he called the “review season” that we have recently been through, and he included some remarks about the review conducted by our Accelerator Advisor Panel (AAP), […]
Learning accelerator science
Director’s Corner 21 May 2009 Barry Barish Learning accelerator science Today I want to encourage young researchers interested in becoming accelerator scientists to consider applying to participate in our "Fourth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders." It will be held from 7 to 18 September 2009 near Beijing, China, and the application deadline of 1 […]
Progress on ILC machine-detector interfaces through the detector LOI process
Director’s Corner 14 May 2009 Barry Barish Progress on ILC machine-detector interfaces through the detector LOI process The TILC09 workshop in Japan from17 to 21 April was particularly notable as it featured the first presentations of the ILC detector Letters of Intent (LOI). Although this process precedes the solicitation of ILC detector proposals or formation […]
Garbincius joins GDE Executive Committee
Director’s Corner 7 May 2009 Barry Barish Garbincius joins GDE Executive Committee The organisation of the Global Design Effort – the ILC’s management team – is more than a little unconventional. As Director, my boss is actually not a person, but rather two committees. Much of the work I “direct” is actually carried out as […]
FLASH – ILC-like beam tests at DESY
Director’s Corner 23 April 2009 Barry Barish FLASH – ILC-like beam tests at DESY Developing high-gradient superconducting radiofrequency (rf) cavities, cryomodules and rf systems for the ILC is at the heart of our R&D programme. An essential part of this programme will be systems tests, including tests with beams. Before we can develop our own […]